Tag: Indian

About the Artists

Suphala is one of the most versatile young tabla artists making music today. Raised in the U.S. by Indian parents, Suphala began learning western classical music on the piano at age four, performing at age five, and as a teenager transferred her passion to one of the world’s most complex percussion instruments: the tabla. She combines an unparalleled technical command of her instrument with a playful sense of experimentation as she switches effortlessly between composing, producing and performing.

Featured Women’s Organization: Ms. FoundationWomen’s Raga Massive presents a Round Robin, bringing together 12 women who will perform a series of spontaneous, improvised duets. The group will then break into larger ensembles and present original works, each led by a different member of the collective. Tabla sculpture installations by Seema Lisa Pandya will be on display.

WRM is primarily concerned with exploring and making visible the diverse creative work of female-identified artists in a musical world where those voices are a minority. WRM seeks to create a platform for minority artists to engage in primarily musical conversations that are referential to Indian classical music and what it means to be a female artist in contemporary America.
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Alif Laila is an accomplished sitarist from Dhaka, Bangladesh, disciple of late Ustad Mir Qasem Khan, nephew of Ustad Alauddin Khan. She continued under the tutelage of Partha Chatterjee, Krishna Bhatt and Kushal Das. She has performed all over the world at various prestigious venues. She will be joined by prime disciple of Pandit Anindo Chatterjee and founder of Anindo Chatterjee School of Tabla, Ehren Hanson.

Ganavya Doraiswamy’s Aikyam
Aikyam is a word-concept in the Indian languages of Sanskrit and Tamil that draws from many things such as: harmony, consolidation into a oneness, identity, and union. In this project, accomplished vocalist Ganavya collaborates with band mates to tell the story of her own consolidation of selves, and draws from her diverse training in the Indian arts to create a quilt made of jazz, abhang-s, Karnatik music, and bharatanatyam, presented in Tamil, English, and Marathi. The philosophical struggles of 13th century poet-activists is pinned next to the issues of today, in the hopes of interrogating the resilience of oppression, and to highlight the similarities of cultural arcs.
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Roshni will also present two collaborative dance projects featuring dancers/choreographers, Brinda Guha and Emily Mcloughlin, the first, exploring the percussive interaction between kathak and tabla, the 2nd, a sonic, textual and moving meditation on bloodlines, life source, karma and fate.